Bo Bennett > Quotes

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth”
― Bo Bennett

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity”
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“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.”
― Bo Bennett

“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.”
― Bo Bennett

“Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.”
― Bo Bennett

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
― Bo Bennett

“Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.”
― Bo Bennett

“Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.”
― Bo Bennett

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”
― Bo Bennett

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is an even better reason to tell the truth”
― Bo Bennett

“This cognitive dissidence causes people to create conspiracy theories, like the ones above, to change facts to match their beliefs, rather than changing their beliefs to match facts.”
― Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
― Bo Bennett

“Realize that there are very few clear lines we can draw between categories in any area of life. Categories are human constructs that we create to help us make sense of things, yet they often end up creating more confusion by tricking us into thinking abstract concepts actually exist.”
― Bo Bennett

“Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.”
― Bo Bennett

“Using bad logic and fallacious reasoning, one can easily create an argument making some use of "magic" look like the only reasonable conclusion, when in fact, the reasonable conclusion is that the argument is fallacious.”
― Bo Bennett

“One of the best ways to expose non sequiturs is by constructing a valid analogy that exposes the absurdity in the argument.”
― Bo Bennett

“Language is powerful and should be used to draw in emotions, but never at the expense of valid reasoning and evidence.”
― Bo Bennett

“no matter how good a belief makes us feel or how good the potential outcome of a belief can be, it does not affect the truth of the belief—and this”
― Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)

“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.”
― Bo Bennett

“Sometimes, without stepping outside your own social or cultural sphere, it might seem like what you might accept as universal truths are simply truths within your own social or cultural sphere.  Don’t assume universal truths.”
― Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)

“Think in term of probabilities, not possibilities. Anything is possible, including a lion busting into your home at night and mauling you to death - but it is very, very improbable. People who use fear (and other emotions) to manipulate you, count on you to be irrational and emotional rather than reasonable and calculating. Prove them wrong.”
― Bo Bennett

“For every good reason to lie there's a better reason to tell the truth”
― Bo Bennett

“Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day.  Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.”
― Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)